Leticia Urieta

Please join us in welcoming back to Austin, Leticia Urieta to celebrate the publication of her new collection, offering to a Tumbled Temple published by Purple Ink Press.

Offerings to a Tumbled Temple by Leticia Urieta is an arresting, lyrical meditation on illness, embodiment, loss, and devotion. In this poetry collection, Urieta transforms the lived experience of chronic pain and healing into ritual, language, and myth. The body—both sacred and wounded—becomes the site of prayer and reckoning. Through altars built of blood, memory, and tenderness, these poems offer not only lamentation but also fierce reclamation: the body as temple, tumbled yet enduring.

Leticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She works as a teaching artist and freelance writer and editor. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her chapbook, The Monster, published in 2018 from LibroMobile Press. Her hybrid collection, Las Criaturas, was published in 2021 by Flowersong Press and was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poetry chapbook, Offerings to a Tumbled Temple was published in 2025 from Purple Ink Press and her dark fiction collection, The Remedy is the Disease, is forthcoming in spring 2026 from Undertaker Books. You can learn more about

Leticia's work at https://leticiaaurieta.com/.

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